ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,427, issued on March 24, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Quadrature signal processor using single analog-to-digital converter unit" was invented by Alphons Litjes (Zijtaart, Netherlands), Erik Olieman (Waalre, Netherlands), Thomas Baier (Graz, Austria), Robert Van Veldhoven (Valkenswaard, Netherlands) and Yuting Shen (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to process received quadrature signals is presented. A received signal is processed into in-phase and quadrature components. A multiplexer alternately outputs the analog in-phase component signal and the analog quadrature comp...